See How Trump's Dream US-Mexico Wall Will Look Like in Reality

Trump's own estimates promised to do it for just $10 billion to $12 billion.

According to Mexican designers, building the $25 billion wall would stay as a 'dream'. (For reference, that's $7 billion more than NASA's operating budget.)

But Mexican architects and designers from Estudio 3.14 have created the 1,954 miles long hot pink border named "Prison-Wall" to show what the wall look like in reality. For fans of the wall, the pictures aren't promising.

Norberto Miranda from Guadalajara-based design firm Estudio 3.14, says that "The renderings are meant to show the impracticality of building the wall." Miranda points that the rolling mountain ranges would make construction difficult and extremely expensive.

The Estudio 3.14 has designed the renderings based on the financial estimates. Additionally, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto announced that his country would never pay for it. According to Kate Drew from CNBC, the construction would cost the US government between $15 billion to $25 billion.

Estudio 3.14 has designed Trump's dream wall in pink, inspired by Mexican architect Luis Barragán, who is famous for his use of bright colors and blunt, stucco walls.

Lining from the Pacific Coast to the Gulf of Mexico, the wall would separate the northern Mexico from southwest United States. The wall would include a prison for immigrants that should be big enough to hold around "11 million people who Trump plans to deport," Miranda said.

What about environment?

"Free movement between the US and Mexico is not just a human issue. What would the construction of a wall mean for animals that live near the border? The US-Mexico border region is a delicate ecosystem with regular animal and bird migrations moving between the north and south of the American continent."

The design points out environmental breeding issues. The wall cuts natural habitats into two pieces. It would stops various species, like black bears and North American jaguars, from mating with their genetically different cousins.

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"The wall would also have to take into account natural flooding zones as well as large areas of sand, where the ground effectively moves. Then there is the detrimental impact on the landscape of a massive construction project - digging, road building, and the appearance of a concrete wall up to 50 feet high, notwithstanding Mr. Trump's pledge that it will be 'very beautiful'."

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